How much does it cost to the free stack guide?

Run your entire SaaS on free tiers until you're scaling. Real examples from a developer who crossed $13k/month with a nearly free stack.

The Free Stack Guide — run your SaaS for $0/mo

The short answer

You can run a production SaaS for $0/month using free tiers from Neon, Vercel, Resend, and Supabase. A developer shared on Reddit that they crossed $13k/month in revenue with a tooling bill near zero — their exact stack is documented in this guide.

The free stack

When each tier breaks

0–100 users: Everything free

Your tooling bill is literally $0. The only cost is your domain (~$10/year).

100–1,000 users: Some upgrades

Email: Resend $20/mo (50k emails)
Database: Neon $25/mo (10 GB, 500 compute hrs)
Total: $45/mo

1,000–10,000 users: Full stack

Hosting: Vercel Pro $20/mo
Database: Neon Scale $25/mo
Email: Resend $20/mo
Analytics: Plausible $9/mo
Auth: Supabase Pro $25/mo
Total: ~$99/mo — still under the $100/mo target

The key insight

Revenue should outgrow your tooling costs. By the time your free tiers break, your revenue should be covering them comfortably. If your costs are growing faster than your revenue, the problem isn't your tooling — it's your pricing or your market.

About the author

Muhammad Akbar is a full-stack developer and the founder of CheapStack. He builds affordable developer tools and writes about bootstrapping products on realistic budgets. All pricing data in this guide was verified from public pricing pages and personal usage in July 2026.